@ckimodog wrote:
I lost my TRS during the covid crisis. My customers were not receiving their orders timely even though I shipped next day. One of my orders wound up in another state. For 3 weeks it sat in the USPS warehouse and it was supposed to go to a neighboring town that was 7 miles from where I live. Even though it wasn't most sellers fault, for some reason Ebay still held the seller accountable. Sellers have no control how fast or slow the mail moves once it's picked up to be shipped. Sorry for your situation.
Same happened to me. I fell to above standard for a period or two before getting back to Top Rated. It was all beyond my control. I don't even think it hurt my sales.
Everyone whose sales have dropped. When real viewing numbers started coming in the megasellers adjusted a whole bunch of prices when they saw what no real eyes were looking at and thus a lot of you might be in the situation where most of your items are available from other sellers much cheaper.
Almost without fail when I check a few listings from someone who says their sales died I find that someone (sometimes 50 people) has a better price than they do on seemingly everything they have for sale.
Price may not be as important with one-off antiques that the buyer is unlikely to be able to compare side by side with an identical one. But price matters hugely for anything that you can find a bunch of with a simple search.
